Q gets a lot of fossil gas from Russia, so much that when EU leaders put together a package of sanctions that basically cut Russia out of the financial system, they avoided penalizing banks that were brokering energy sales. Doing so would be catastrophic for the people and economies of Europe. So suddenly everyone is asking, could European countries cope if Russian gas supplies were cut off? What is the answer?
A The answer is that we would cope only partially. Which is another way of saying we would not cope, or we would not cope satisfactorily. And just to be a bit more explicit, in some countries of Europe, and it's difficult to know exactly where, but, ah, the supply of energy, whether it's natural gas, or whether it's electricity, or whether it's heat, Would have to be rationed. Some homes and businesses would not get the final energy that they expect and that they have contracted for. I mean, it's too big for the market to address, even if you factor in the massive increase in prices that would be generated. You would have to have some proper rationing Which is just administrative allocation of what is available, meaning that some consumers, uh, could not be served.
AI assessment note: “The answer is that we would cope only partially. Which is another way of saying”